James Graff

James Graff

World Editor

A former senior editor for Time, James was bureau chief in Paris, Brussels, Chicago and Vienna. He has also reported from the Middle East, Mexico and the Arctic.

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Canada Breathes Golden Sigh of Relief

posted:  32 days 1 hour ago

(Feb. 15) -- Breaking a dry spell that started at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada finally landed its first gold medal on home soil Sunday when Montrealer Alexandre Bilodeau skied to vict ...

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Amid American Malaise, Canada Envy Returns

posted:  43 days 20 hours ago

(Feb. 3) -- When political acrimony and dysfunction crescendo in the United States, Americans of a certain persuasion tend to look longingly at the relative calm and order they perceive across its no ...

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Clinton Offers Surprise Deal at Climate Conference

posted:  92 days 1 hour ago

(Dec. 17) -- With the clock winding down and the hosts of the Copenhagen climate conference reportedly abandoning hope of a deal, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a possibly g ...

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Cap-and-Trade Model Loses Billions to Fraud

posted:  98 days 17 hours ago

(Dec. 10) -- As negotiators grapple in Copenhagen over a global scheme to curtail carbon emissions, Europe's own iteration was revealed as an easy mark for organized crime. The development could lend ...

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Iran Blasted for Human Rights and Academic Abuses

posted:  98 days 22 hours ago

(Dec. 10) -- Amnesty International accused Iranian authorities Thursday of perpetrating the worst human rights abuses in more than 20 years as they try to tamp down broad dissent following President ...

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Obama's Iran Strategy Hits Great Wall of China

posted:  120 days 21 hours ago

(Nov. 18) -- The Obama administration's shot at a win-win stratagem for reining in Iran's nuclear program looks more doomed than ever this week, raising doubts that sanctions against the country can ...

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Does Karzai's Corruption Offer Obama an Out?

posted:  126 days 18 hours ago

(Nov. 12) -- He was once, if too briefly, a hero. But now Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been cast in the role of spoiler as President Barack Obama mulls over a list of unpalatable options for Afg ...

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Angela Merkel Comes to Washington

posted:  135 days 19 hours ago

As the first German chancellor in more than a half-century to address a joint session of Congress, Angela Merkel had history on her side Tuesday. Few politicians can speak more convincingly than this ...

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Blood and Bluster on Iran-Pakistan Border

posted:  142 days 19 hours ago

Iran is preparing its next dodge to defend its nuclear program; Pakistan is waging war on a Taliban faction in the wild frontier territory of South Waziristan. So it seemed wise for both countries to ...

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Wariness Persists over Iran Nuke Deal

posted:  148 days 21 hours ago

Is Iran finally playing fair? The draft agreement announced Wednesday after more than two days of negotiations in Vienna puts the international community tantalizingly close to a measure that would ...

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